History VideoGame / YuuyamiDooriTankentai

The game is set in the fictional Japanese town of Hirumi City. The game follows three kids: a boy named Naoki "'''[[TheIdealist Nao]]'''" Urase, two girls named '''[[TheIngenue Kurumi]]''' Shīna and Mayu "'''[[InsufferableGenius Sango]]'''" Heinai (and Nao's dog '''[[EvilDetectingDog Melos]]'''). They've heard quite a number of pretty spooky [[UrbanLegend urban legends]] about places all over town, and have decided to look in to their legitimacy.

* '''Morning''' (''5 minutes'')''':''' The chosen character is in the school, interacting with its schoolmates in search of new rumors. In sundays, the school is replaced by a possible morning household cutscene.
* '''Afternoon''' (''7 minutes'')''':''' The chosen character and its two friends take a walk around the city, solving mysteries or simply taking a stroll.

The objective of the game is to break the curse that befalls on the main characters, which states that one of them will die after a hundred days, before the day finally arrives. This will be only possible by solving a good number of mysteries in the city, therefore uncovering the truth of the curse[[note]]Debunking false urban legends will usually get you no points, although hearing or completing some of them may lead to other new useful ones.[[/note]].

* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler: Yamabato Dōji, one of the Seven Deities of Hirumi, usually manifests into a a boy with anachronistic clothing, but sometimes he's seen as a dove ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane never transforming in-screen, though]]). In fact, his name translates as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_turtle_dove Oriental turtle dove]] boy".]]
* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "''The rumor of the crow's curse''", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow (''Jinmen Garasu'') perch on it, look at you (as Nao), and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: The Human-faced Crow turns out to be the corrupted version of a former benevolent crow deity...]] [[spoiler: As well as just a myth who probably can't harm anyone that doesn't believe in it.]]

* TheBully: The [[GirlPosse Toilet Corps]] (named after their usual place of reunion) and the Yuasa Corps (named after their leader [[TheNapoleon Mitsuru Yuasa]]) serve as this not only to the main trio, but to many of their schoolmates. While their gossiping, slander and bullying is harmful, some of their conversations are useful to obtain rumors... Although expect many of them to be, well, [[{{Pun}} bullshit]].
* BullyMagnet: The dorky Shinta Segawa and the creepy Kojiro Kume, two of Nao's classmates. Kojiro is starting to get tired of the Yuasa Corps picking on him, and plans to revenge.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler: The Seven Deities of Hirumi are literally alive thanks to people's belief. When Nao stops believing in the Human-faced Crow, it dissapears along the 100-day Curse... Along with the rest of the deities. That doesn't stop somebody from suffering a fatal fate in the cursed day, though.]]
* {{Fangirl}}: Mario Inagaki, a girl that admires Sango's {{Doujinshi}} works and seems to be obsessed in [[YaoiFangirl shipping anime characters]] and not much else. Sango seems mildly annoyed by the reputation she's starting to get, since she is into literature and hasn't high regard for anime.

* GoldenEnding: To get the best ending, you have to unlock the final mystery and play it before the 100th day. In it, [[spoiler: Nao terminates with the Human-Faced Crow and its curse (and, by proxy, with the Seven Deities of Hirumi) by ceasing to believe in them, but sadly, Kurumi dies nonetheless. However, during the night she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence appears along the Seven Deities of Hirumi]] to Nao and Sango... OrWasItADream]]

* LoveTriangle: Nao has a very obvious crush on Kurumi, who tries to get her on a date, but Kurumi is so oblivious that mistakes it for a mere night walk (which kickstarts the events of the game). Meanwhile, Sango has a crush on her pen pal Tomoki, but the fact that she's never seen him makes her get feelings for Nao very slowly. [[spoiler: In the GoldenEnding, Kurumi dies and the two get distant after her death. However, Sango breaks her contact with Tomoki, and the game's ending hints at the two former friends getting together again.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The subject matter of the game is about proving if strange and paranormal rumors are true or not. Depending on the mystery and character, it may fall into FakeMystery or RealAfterAll:

** '''[[ButThouMust The rumor of the crow's curse]]:''' Whoever goes to the Bird Gravesite Forest during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Nao sees a Human-faced Crow and falls to its curse, which ensures that one of the three kids will die after 100 days... [[InvisibleToNormals But only he claims to have seen it]].
** '''The rumor of Hanako-san's grave:''' A dead girl's ghost used to haunt the city, but her power has faded and doesn't appear anymore. Only a certain person can guide to her grave, [[SecretWord as long as s/he hears a certain word]]. [[spoiler: An elderly woman leads you to a shrine of a child [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to appease the floods]], although it's unclear if it's the same story. The case ends on an unconclusive note, since the shrine has been replaced by a parking lot. That said, Kurumi meets a friendly StringyHairedGhostGirl...]]
*** '''The rumor of the peeping old man:''' Yuasa claims to have seen the eye of a peeping old man between two vending machines at an adult store, although [[CryingWolf nobody believes him]]. [[spoiler: The trio finds the store owner, who dislikes kids, and tells them that he scared Yuasa days ago. However, Kurumi dislikes the place and also claims something was peeping at her. Sango returns and finds a hole in the wall that connects to a neighbor's backyard, but the owner gets very irritated with the trio. Nao is the last to enter, but the store owner gives up and finally tells them what worries him: the man had a former friend (maybe the neighbor) who never had intimate relations with anyone before reaching old age, and his uncontrolled sexual urge ended up in [[BeyondRedemption molesting a teenager]]. Therefore, he absolutely detests that any minor enters his store and tells them that they should behave as adults (i. e. don't go there until they grow up, admit that there [[AtLeastIAdmitIt will always be people who like porn]], and that it may be shameful but not a crime)... Later, Nao very shamefully admits to the girls that [[NotSoAboveItAll he's into adult entertainment]].]]

** '''The rumor of the ghosts under the highway:''' A ghost haunts an eerie unkempt tunnel, which was the place a traffic accident not too far ago. [[spoiler: The team only finds a [[DirtyOldMan creepy salaryman]] and a confused woman there, but helping the latter cross the tunnel will [[SanityMeter ease Kurumi's mind]].]] [[spoiler: Kasuka advises Kurumi to help the woman and warns her not to go again near the tunnel, which is a haunted place.]]
** '''The rumor of the maze street:''' A strange street [[UnnaturallyLoopingLocation disorientates whoever travels there]] until they die. [[spoiler: Kurumi gets lost, but, of all things, [[AnimateInanimateObject a mailbox]] helps her to find Yamabato Dōji, a kid playing hide-and-seek near a small shrine who is implied to be [[FairyTrickster responsible for getting people lost]]. The three together later try to find him, but see otherwise a fairly normal street.]]
** '''The rumor of the ghost in the stairway:''' A ghost in a stairway attempts to push people out if they climb them at midnight. [[spoiler: The stairway was temporarily blocked because a fatal accident happened: a boy attemped to walk down the frozen stairs, slipped, and seemingly died. The crowd felt powerless after seeing his corpse, but the now-disfigured boy briefly rised to ask for help before dying, provoking the crowd who reacted with fright -- the neighbors [[MyGreatestFailure are ashamed to talk about it]]. Kurumi meets the resentful ghost of the victim in the stairs.]]
** '''The rumor of the wandering ghosts:''' The Toilet Corps swears that Sango's block of flats is haunted (and Nao heard about a photo of a ghost taken there). [[spoiler: Obviously, it's mere slander, and [[RedHerring the photo is rather mundane]]. Although the gang learns that years ago, the Bird Gravesite (then named [[ThereAreNoCoincidences Crow]] Gravesite) was moved near the block, and four people suicided back then, before moving again the Gravesite near the school (Kurumi seems to hear their screams). An janitor tells them the story, but dies shortly after their interrogation, which leaves Nao wanting to know where the Gravesite was originally from. The case ends with [[FakeMystery no clear causality between the rumor and the five deaths]].]]

** '''The rumor of the cats' gathering:''' Jelly and Cookies argue about whether seeing a gathering of cats is a good or bad augury. [[spoiler: Kurumi goes to ask some stray cats, despite Nao and Sango finding it nonsensical. They tell her that they're gonna meet in a temple at the [[EasternZodiac Hour of the Cat]] for a ''[[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/直会 naorai]]'' feast. Shortly after, the gang follows some cats to a shrine, until they find a big cat. Kurumi says that he's their leader, a [[BakenekoAndNekomata Nekomata]], and mostly evades his jinxes, but the cat is bewildered about how a human has seen him and refuses to give any augury, instead making her sleep. Nao and Sango simply follow her along.]]
** '''The rumor of the lizard's hand:''' A lizard hand will bring death to whoever school student's belongings hold it. The only way to escape the curse is by putting it to somebody else's belongings... But it turns out that Kurumi already owns one. [[spoiler: There's two other hands in Nao's desk and Sango's locker, put there by Segawa and a Sango classmate, who simply did it because they were the constant victims of the Yuasa / Toilet Corps and feared to retaliate and/or was in vain. Sango swears revenge to whoever started it: she finds [[FakeMystery the street vendor who sold them]], and it turns that the buyer was none other than Kojiro Kume: Sango gets revenge by putting three plus one hands and a mocking letter in his desk, despite Nao's complaints.]]
** '''The rumor of the antiques shop's curse:''' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer According to]] Mario, there [[FigureItOutYourself may be something]] cursed in an antiques shop. Maybe it's the fact that the owner changed four times? [[note]]Storytelling is definitely not her forte.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Nao is stubbornly focused in finding a curse somewhere. [[FakeMystery The closest thing to it]] is the fact that the shop changed it's tenant for ten times straight (probably for low sales), and will probably do so sometime later since the shop is later closed.]]
** '''The rumor of the lovers' suicide incident:''' Two lovers suicided by driving their car into a pond. Whoever sees their shadow in the pond will have a happy marriage. [[spoiler: The gang finds a submerged auto and a cellphone at its side: if Kurumi picks the call, she can hear a ''woman'' angrily asking for a man who escaped from her. Nao and Kurumi agree to give the cellphone to the police. On the way, they ask about the truth of the rumor: the policeman tells them that the car is probably a case of illegal dumping, although an attempted [[MurderBySuicide double suicide]] happened years ago (the woman forced him by drugging him, but he escaped from the suicide attempt, dying later in the hospital). Later, a business''man'' goes to the police station to pick up his phone.]]
** '''The rumor of the riverbed ghost:''' Shinta claims to have seen a ghostly a barefoot woman while fishing. The Yuasa Corps swear that he's now cursed, as well as Nao who heard his story. [[spoiler: The gang find the woman besides the riverbed, who doesn't say anything other than random river-related meanderings. Kurumi tries to do it later under the same results, but sees two [[FetusTerrible fetus ghosts]] at her feet, and manages to make them leave. Later, Sango is bothered by the woman total's inaction, but the two end up fighting while the woman reveals that she had to abort because her boyfriend disappeared overnight -- although the fight somehow convinces the woman to get revenge over her former boyfriend.]]
** '''The rumor of the deadly words:''' Whenever a woman remembers the words "Dancing Baby" until its 20th birthday, she will give birth to a faceless baby. However, a counter-spell (that only the leader of the Toilet Corps knows) can solve it. [[spoiler: Although [[FakeMystery Sango doesn't care about the curse]], she's intrigued by the familiarity of the words. To solve it, she calls her beloved Tomoki (who Sango has been prohibited to call to) to try to solve it. Tomoki advises Sango to solve its meaning through the phone. The mystery is solved when Sango realizes that it's an [[SmartBall unlikely reference]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeno_Kyūsaku Yumeno Kyūsaku]]'s novel ''Dogra Magra'', which might be found in Sango's favourite bookstore.]]
** '''The rumor of the never-opening Pachinko parlor:''' The owner of a permanently closed Pachinko parlor had a breakdown and killed himself, and haunts the place since then. [[spoiler: Sango breaks in and finds the owner preparing to reopen, but says that a woman's ghost who hanged herself haunts the place. A friend of the owner and some gossiping women vaguely confirm the incident, but the policemen refuse to tell the children what happened. After interrogating the owner again, he says that the woman "was killed in self-defense" and is right behind Sango, but only he sees her. In a later interrogation, he says that he's about to open the parlor taking profit from the urban legends, and that the woman burnt herself. The parlor never opens, and the kids speculate that he went mad from [[NothingIsScarier whatever incident happened there]].]]

* {{Miko}}: Minami Aiba, one of Kurumi's classmates who keeps more time in her parents' shrine than in her classroom. For some reason, she only appears at the school during cloudy days.

* MultipleEndings: The game has three non-GameOver endings: reaching to the 100th day with less than 33 Rumor Resolution points; reaching the 100th day with 33 or more Rumor Resolution points, and the GoldenEnding (completing the final mystery unlocked after acquiring 33 Rumor Resolution points). It's recommended that, to get a high score, the player priorizes the stories involving [[spoiler: Kasuka or shrines (i. e. the Seven Deities of Hirumi)]], or to a lesser extent cases with a paranormal basis, over hoaxes.
* MyBelovedSmother: Nao's mother is constantly worried about her child, despite Nao being fairly well-behaved and studious. This is caused in part because Nao is her only child and [[WhenYouComingHomeDad his father almost never coming from work to home]], to the point that his family is getting distant from him.

* NintendoHard: While the gameplay itself is very simple, completing the minimum number of mysteries requires a very good planning of every day's schedule, since most of them only appear under special circumstances -- not to mention how the game expects you to have the city map memorized.
* NonStandardGameOver: If the "Spiritual Disturbance" meter reaches 100 points, a character will have a lethal NightmareSequence: Kurumi will be captured by the night spirits and die, Nao will wake up alone in an hospital, and Sango will be run over by a car after shopping in a grocery store during the night.
* POVCam: One of the game's gimmicks is that, during certain encounters, the player can see its surroundings through a 360 panoramic view.
* [[spoiler: PowersThatBe: The Seven Deities of Hirumi, a bunch of BlueAndOrangeMorality spirits that haunt Hirumi City. While during most of the game only Kurumi can see them, the GoldenEnding makes Nao and Sango have visions of them.]]

* SanityMeter: SanityMeter: The game has an invisible "Spiritual Disturbance" meter, which grows a point higher on each day after the Human-faced Crow encounter. After 20 points are obtained [[note]]10 in the case of Kurumi[[/note]], yout last played character will suffer a NightmareSequence minigame after every 10 points: in case that you reach 100 points, the last one [[GameOver will be fatal]]. It's possible to lower or raise it during some investigations and through some actions: the gauge will increase after passing the [[EldritchLocation tunnel under the highway]], whenever Kurumi has an (usually skippable) encounter with a remorseful ghost, after Nao and especially Sango [[TemptingFate mess with sacred objects]], or if any of them picks the wrong actions during a nightmare sequence. Inversely, it's possible to lower it by visiting one of the temples or, especially, after Kurumi [[spoiler: talks with Kasuka]].

* SiblingRivalry: Sango and her older sister Ai usually annoy each other: Sango sees her sister as an inmature teenager that cares way more about dating than about studying, while Ai sees Sango as an InsufferableGenius who spends too much of their parents' money on the phone talking to her [[PenPals telephone pal]]. Despite their fights, they have probably the most normal household life of the three main characters.
* SliceOfLife: Although the game is technically about three kids proving spooky rumors, its (mostly) mundane daily structure puts it firmly in this territory. It's also got heavy doses of MagicRealism, but doesn't completely fall into it due to [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the ambiguousness of most of the situations]].

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Kasuka, a girl that only Kurumi seems to see. She actually turns out to be [[spoiler: one of the Seven Deities of Hirumi, and [[MysteriousProtector tries to help Kurumi and her friends to solve their mysteries]], plus she is very beneficial to her Spiritual Disturbance meter (decreasing 10 points per encounter)... Although she is very interested in Kurumi [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence joining with her and the other Deities]].]]

* {{Tulpa}}: [[spoiler: The Human-faced Crow's "true identity" is implied to be a CreepyChild which escaped from from a mental institution and was found in dead inside a well near the Human-Faced Crow's zone, and at some point her evil presence was mixed-up with the folk belief of a benevolent crow deity.]]

''Yuuyami Doori Tankentai'' (''translated: Dusk Street Exploration Party'') is a {{Horror}}-themed AdventureGame developed by Creator/SpikeChunsoft for the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}.

* TheIngenue: Kurumi, who acts way too childish for a girl of her age (having a possible AmbiguousDisorder), and claims to have paranormal experiences. Her parents try so solve it with psychiatrist sessions.

* TheBully: The [[GirlPosse Toilet Corps]] (named after their usual place of reunion) and the Yuasa Corps (named after their leader [[TheNapoleon Mitsuru Yuasa]]) serve as this not only to the main trio, but to many of their schoolmates. While their gossiping, slander and bullying is harmful, some of their conversations are useful to obtain rumors... Although expect many of them to be, well, [[JustForPun bullshit]].

* [[spoiler: {{Animorphism}}: Yamabato Dōji, one of the Seven Deities of Hirumi, usually manifests into a a boy with anachronistic clothing, but sometimes he's seen as a dove ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane never transforming in-screen, though]]). In fact, his name translates as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_turtle_dove Oriental turtle dove]] boy".]]

* [[TheBully The Bullies]]: The [[GirlPosse Toilet Corps]] (named after their usual place of reunion) and the Yuasa Corps (named after their leader [[TheNapoleon Mitsuru Yuasa]]) serve as this not only to the main trio, but to many of their schoolmates. While their gossiping, slander and bullying is harmful, some of their conversations are useful to obtain rumors... Although expect many of them to be, well, [[JustForPun bullshit]].

* [[spoiler: ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Seven Deities of Hirumi are literally alive thanks to people's belief. When Nao stops believing in the Human-faced Crow, it dissapears along the 100-day Curse... Along with the rest of the deities. That doesn't stop somebody from suffering a fatal fate in the cursed day, though.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Tulpa}}: The Human-faced Crow's "true identity" is implied to be a CreepyChild which escaped from from a mental institution and was found in dead inside a well near the Human-Faced Crow's zone, and at some point her evil presence was mixed-up with the folk belief of a benevolent crow deity.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Youkai}}: Some of the most animalistic Seven Deities of Hirumi are based on Yōkai, like the [[TalkingAnimal talking cat]] [[BakenekoAndNekomata Nekomata Daigongen]] and the possessing spirit {{Kitsune}}[[SymbioticPossession tsuki]].]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The game starts after the main characters suffer a supposed curse, and serves as the justification of the 100-day-long game. The GoldenEnding [[spoiler: isn't so much about breaking the curse, but about Nao refusing to believe in it anymore and accept that Kurumi's illness is a very unfortunate coincidence.]]

* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "''The rumor of the crow's curse''", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow (''Jinmen Garasu'') perch on it, look at you (as Nao), and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: The Human-faced Crow turns out to be the corrupted version of a former benevolent crow deity...]]] [[spoiler: As well as just a myth who probably can't harm anyone that doesn't believe in it.]]

** '''The rumor of the antiques shop's curse:''' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer According to]] Mario, there [[[[FigureItOutYourself may be something]] cursed in an antiques shop. Maybe it's the fact that the owner changed four times? [[note]]Storytelling is definitely not her forte.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Nao is stubbornly focused in finding a curse somewhere. [[FakeMystery The closest thing to it]] is the fact that the shop changed it's tenant for ten times straight (probably for low sales), and will probably do so sometime later since the shop is later closed.]]

** '''The rumor of the never-opening Pachinko parlor:''' The owner of a permanently closed Pachinko parlor had a breakdown and killed himself, and haunts the place since then. [[spoiler: Sango breaks in and finds the owner preparing to reopen, but says that a woman's ghost who hanged herself haunts the place. A friend of the owner and some gossiping women vaguely confirm the incident, but the policemen refuse to tell the children what happened. After interrogating the owner again, he says that the woman "was killed in self-defense" and is right behind Sango, but only he sees her. In a later interrogation, he says that he's about to open the parlor taking profit from the urban legends, and that the woman burnt herself. The parlor never opens, and the kids speculate that he went mad from [[NothingIsScarier whatever incident happened there]].]]

-->-- '''[[JustifiedTutorial The rumor of the crow's curse]]]'''

* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "The rumor of the crow's curse", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow (''Jinmen Garasu'') perch on it, look at you (as Nao), and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: The Human-faced Crow turns out to be the corrupted version of a former benevolent crow deity... As well as just a myth who probably can't harm anyone that doesn't believe in it.]]

* [[TheBully The Bullies]]: The [[GirlPosse Toilet Corps]] (named after their usual place of reunion) and the Yuasa Corps (named after their leader Mitsuru Yuasa) serve as this not only to the main trio, but to many of their schoolmates. While their gossiping, slander and bullying is harmful, some of their conversations are useful to obtain rumors... Although expect many of them to be, well, [[JustForPun bullshit]].

* CanineCompanion: Melos.

* {{Fangirl}}: Mario Inagaki, a girl that admires Sango's {{Doujinshi}} works and seems to be obsessed in [[YaoiFangirl shipping anime characters]]. Sango seems mildly annoyed by the reputation she's starting to get, since she isn't that much into anime.

* IfIWereARichMan: Discussed in ''the of the forest's treasure'', where the gang hypothesizes about being rich: Nao would [[BoringButPractical save it in the bank]], Sango would [[CrazySurvivalist build a nuclear shelter]], and Kurumi simply wants a green dog.

* ISeeDeadPeople: Kurumi seems to be the only character that can see supernatural things, although Nao witnesses the Human-faced Bird urban legend at the start of the game.

** '''[[ButThouMust The rumor of the crow's curse]]:''' Whoever goes to the Bird Gravesite Forest during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Nao sees a Human-faced Crow and falls to its curse, which ensures that one of the three kids will die after 100 days... [[InvisibleToNormals But only Nao sees it]].
** '''The rumor of Hanako-san's grave:''' A dead girl's ghost used to haunt the city, but her power has faded and doesn't appear anymore. Only a certain person can guide to her grave, [[SecretWord as long as s/he hears a certain word]]. [[spoiler: An elderly woman leads you to a shrine of a child [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to appease the floods]], although it's unclear if it's the same story. The case ends on an unconclusive note, since the shrine has been replaced by a parking lot. That said, Kurumi meets a StringyHairedGhostGirl...]]
*** '''The rumor of the peeping old man:''' Yuasa claims to have seen the eye of a peeping old man between two vending machines at an adult store, although nobody believes him. [[spoiler: The trio finds the store owner, who dislikes kids, and tells them that he scared Yuasa days ago. However, Kurumi dislikes the place and also claims somebody was peeping at her. Sango returns and finds a hole in the wall that connects to a neighbor's backyard, but the owner gets very irritated with the trio. Nao is the last to enter, but the store owner gives up and finally tells them what worries him: the man had a former friend (maybe the neighbor) who never dated anybody before reaching old age, and his uncontrolled sexual urge ended up in [[BeyondRedemption a teenager's abuse]]. Therefore, he absolutely detests that any minor enters his store and tells them that they should behave as adults (i. e. don't go there until they grow up, admit that there [[AtLeastIAdmitIt will always be people who like porn]], and that it may be shameful but not a crime)... Later, Nao very shamefully admits to the girls that [[NotSoAboveItAll he's into adult entertainment]].]]

** '''The rumor of the maze street:''' A strange street that [[UnnaturallyLoopingLocation disorientates whoever travels there]] until they die. [[spoiler: Kurumi gets lost, but, of all things, [[AnimateInanimateObject a mailbox]] helps her to find Yamabato Dōji, a kid playing hide-and-seek who is implied to be [[FairyTrickster responsible for getting people lost]]. The three together later try to find him, but see otherwise a fairly normal street.]]

** '''The rumor of the wandering ghosts:''' The Toilet Corps swears that Sango's block of flats is haunted (and Nao heard about a photo of a ghost taken there). [[spoiler: Obviously, it's mere slander... Although the gang learns that years ago, the Bird Gravesite (then named Crow Gravesite) was moved near the block, and four people suicided back then, before moving again the Gravesite near the school (Kurumi seems to hear their screams). An janitor tells them the story, but dies shortly after their interrogation, which leaves Nao wanting to know where the Gravesite was originally from. The case ends with [[FakeMystery no clear causality between the rumor and the five deaths]].]]

** '''The rumor of the cats' gathering:''' Jelly and Cookie argue about whether seeing a gathering of cats is a good or bad augury. [[spoiler: Kurumi goes to ask some stray cats, despite Nao and Sango finding it nonsensical. They tell her that they're gonna meet in a temple at the [[EasternZodiac Hour of the Cat]] for a ''[[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/直会 naorai]]'' feast. Shortly after, the gang follows some cats to a shrine, until they find a big cat. Kurumi says that he's their leader, a [[BakenekoAndNekomata Nekomata]], and mostly evades his jinxes, but the cat is bewildered about how a human has seen him and refuses to give any augury, instead making her sleep. Nao and Sango simply follow her along.]]
** '''The rumor of the lizard's hand:''' A lizard hand will bring death to whoever school student's belongings hold it. The only way to escape the curse is by putting it to somebody else's desk... But it turns out that Kurumi already owns one. [[spoiler: There's two other hands in Nao's desk and Sango's locker, put there by Segawa and a Sango classmate, who simply did it because they were the constant victims of the Yuasa / Toilet Corps and feared to retaliate and/or was in vain. Sango swears revenge to whoever started it: she finds [[FakeMystery the street vendor who sold them]], and it turns that the buyer was none other than Kojiro Kume: Sango gets revenge by putting an extra hand and a mocking letter in his desk, despite Nao's complaints.]]
** '''The rumor of the antiques shop's curse:''' There's, uh, [[FigureItOutYourself something]] cursed in an antiques shop. The owner changed four times, so maybe that's a ominous sign. [[spoiler: Nao is stubbornly focused in finding a curse somewhere. [[FakeMystery The closest thing to it]] is the fact that the shop changed it's tenant for ten times straight, and will probably do so sometime later since the shop is later closed.]]

** '''The rumor of the deadly words:''' Whenever a woman remembers the words "Dancing Baby" until its 20th birthday, she will give birth to a faceless baby. However, a counter-spell (that only the leader of the Toilet Corps knows) can solve it. [[spoiler: Although [[FakeMystery Sango doesn't care about the curse]], she's intrigued by the familiarity of the words. To solve it, she calls her beloved Tomoki (who Sango has been prohibited to call to for her high phone bills) to try to solve it. Tomoki advises Sango to solve its meaning through the phone. The mystery is solved when Sango realizes that it's an [[SmartBall unlikely reference]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeno_Kyūsaku Yumeno Kyūsaku]]'s novel ''Dogra Magra'', which might be found in Sango's favourite bookstore.]]

* MultipleEndings: The game has three non-GameOver endings: reaching to the 100th day with less than 33 Rumor Resolution points; reaching the 100th day with 33 or more Rumor Resolution points, and the GoldenEnding (completing the final mystery unlocked after acquiring 33 Rumor Resolution points).

* SanityMeter: The game has an invisible "Spiritual Disturbance" meter, which grows a point higher on each day after the Human-faced Crow encounter. It's possible to lower or raise it during some investigations - for example, a visit to the temple will lower one point per day. After 20 points are obtained (10 in the case of Kurumi), yout last played character will suffer a NightmareSequence minigame after every 10 points - depending on the chosen option, the meter will stay the same or rise a point. In case that you reach 100 points, it's GameOver.

** '''The rumor of the lovers' suicide incident:''' Two lovers suicided by driving their car into a pond. Whoever sees their shadow in the pond will have a happy marriage. [[The gang finds a submerged auto and a cellphone at its side: if Kurumi picks the call, she can hear a ''woman'' angrily asking for a man who escaped from her. Nao and Kurumi agree to give the cellphone to the police. On the way, they ask about the truth of the rumor: the policeman tells them that the car is probably a case of illegal dumping, although an attempted [[MurderBySuicide double suicide]] happened years ago (the woman forced him by drugging him, but he escaped from the suicide attempt, dying later in the hospital). Later, a business''man'' goes to the police station to pick up his phone.]]

** '''The rumor of the lovers' suicide incident:''' The gang finds a submerged auto and a cellphone at its side: if Kurumi picks the call, she can hear a ''woman'' angrily asking for a man who escaped from her. Nao and Kurumi agree to give the cellphone to the police. On the way, they ask about the truth of the rumor: the policeman tells them that the car is probably a case of illegal dumping, although an attempted [[MurderBySuicide double suicide]] happened years ago (the woman forced him by drugging him, but he escaped from the suicide attempt, dying later in the hospital). Later, a business''man'' goes to the police station to pick up his phone.]]

-->-- '''[[JustifiedTutorial Rumor 1]]: The rumor of the crow's curse'''

** '''The rumor of the crow's curse''' ([[ButThouMust Unskippable mission]]) ''':''' Whoever goes to the Bird Gravesite Forest during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Nao sees a Human-faced Crow and falls to its curse, which ensures that one of the three kids will die after 100 days... But only Nao sees it.
** '''The rumor of Hanako-san's grave:''' An old story about a dead girl's ghost that haunted the city, but her power has supposedly faded and doesn't appear anymore. Only a certain person can guide to her grave, [[SecretWord as long as s/he hears a certain word]]. [[spoiler: An elderly woman leads you to a shrine of a child [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to appease the floods]], although it's unclear if it's the same story. The case ends on an unconclusive note, since the shrine has been replaced by a parking lot. That said, Kurumi meets a StringyHairedGhostGirl...]]
*** '''The rumor of the peeping old man:''' Mitsuru Yuasa claims to have seen the eye of a peeping old man between two vending machines at an adult store, although no one else in his gang believes him. [[spoiler: The trio finds the store owner, who dislikes annoying teenagers, and tells them that he scared Yuasa days ago. However, Kurumi dislikes the place and also claims somebody was peeping at her. Sango returns and finds a hole in the wall that connects to a neighbor's house, but the owner doesn't care and is starting to get really irritated with the trio. Nao is the last to try to enter the store, but the store owner gives up and finally tells them what worries him: The man had a former friend (possibly the neighbor) who never dated anybody before reaching old age, and his uncontrolled sexual urge ended up in a teenager's abuse. Therefore, he absolutely detests that any kid enters his store and tells them that they should behave as adults (i. e. don't go there until they grow up, admit that there will always be people who like porn, and that it may be shameful but not a crime)... Later, Nao very shamefully admits to the girls that he's into adult entertainment.]]

** '''The rumor of the ghost in the stairway:''' A ghost in a stairway attempts to push people out if they climb them at midnight. [[spoiler: Kurumi meets resentful disfigured ghost of the victim in the stairs. The stairway was temporarily blocked because a fatal accident happened: a boy attemped to walk down the frozen stairs, slipped, and seemingly died. The crowd felt powerless after seeing his corpse, but the now-disfigured boy briefly rised to ask for help before dying, provoking the crowd who reacted with fright -- the neighbors [[MyGreatestFailure are ashamed to talk about it]].]]
** '''The rumor of the wandering ghosts:''' The Toilet Troop swears that Sango's block of flats is haunted (and Nao heard about a photo of a possible ghost taken there). [[spoiler: Obviously, it's merely slander... Although the gang learns that years ago, the Bird Gravesite (then named Crow Gravesite) was moved near the block, and four people suicided back then, before moving again the Gravesite near the school -- Kurumi seems to hear their screams. An apartment's janitor tells them the story, but dies shortly after their interrogation, which leaves Nao wanting to know where the Gravesite was originally from. The case ends with [[FakeMystery no clear causality between the rumor and the five deaths]].]]
** '''The rumor of the forest's treasure:''' A treasure of the Edo-era shogunate is hidden in a shrine within the city's forest. [[spoiler: The gang finds an abandoned shrine and try to dig under it (which is [[TemptingFate a blasphemous act]]) to no avail. Later, they meet the barber who [[ScoobyDooHoax spread the rumor to the Yuasa gang]] in the first place, who is starting to regret being so childish... Although Kurumi, who was in charge of finding the treasure, is happy because she's found her own treasure in the forest: Tengu, a talking waterfall who only she has seen.]]

** '''The rumor of the lizard's hand:''' A lizard hand will bring death to whoever school student's desk is thrown to. The only way to escape the curse is by throwing it to somebody else's desk... But it turns out that Kurumi has already one. [[spoiler: Segawa puts another one in Nao's desk, but is caught sometime later -- he did it because Yuasa always turned it back to him. Likewise, somebody puts it in Sango's locker, and swears revenge: it turns out that a classmate put it into the locker because she feared the threats of the Toilet Troop, who she hated. Sango finds [[FakeMystery the street vendor who sold them]], and it turns that the buyer was none other than Kojiro Kume: Sango gets revenge by putting an extra hand and a mocking letter in his desk, despite Nao's complaints.]]

** '''The rumor of the lovers' suicide incident:''' Two lovers suicided by driving their car into a pond. Whoever sees their shadow in the pond will have a happy marriage. [[spoiler: The gang find an auto inside the pond, while Kurumi finds a cellphone besides it: if she picks the call, she can hear a ''woman'' angrily asking for a man who escaped from her. Nao and Kurumi agree to give the cellphone to the police. On the way, they ask about the truth of the rumor: the policeman tells them that the car is probably a case of illegal dumping, although an attempted double suicide happened years ago (the woman forced him by drugging him, but he escaped from the suicide attempt, dying later in the hospital). Later, a business''man'' goes to the police station to pick up his phone.]]
** '''The rumor of the riverbed ghost:''' Shinta claims to have seen a ghostly a barefoot woman while fishing. The Yuasa Corps swear that he's now cursed, as well as Nao who heard his story. [[spoiler: The gang find the woman besides the riverbed, who doesn't say anything other than that she's looking at the river. Kurumi tries to do it later under the same results, but sees two baby ghosts at her feet, and manages to make them leave. Later, Sango is bothered by the woman total's inaction, but the two end up fighting while the woman reveals that she had to abort because her boyfriend disappeared overnight -- although the fight somehow convinces the woman to get revenge over her former boyfriend.]]
** '''The rumor of the deadly words:''' Whenever a woman remembers the words "Dancing Baby" until its 20th birthday, she will give birth a faceless baby. However, a counter-spell that only the leader of the Toilet Troops knows can solve it. [[spoiler: Although [[FakeMystery Sango doesn't care about the curse]], she's intrigued by the familiarity of the words. To solve it, she calls her beloved Tomoki (who Sango has been prohibited to call to for her high phone bills) to try to solve it. Tomoki advises Sango to solve its meaning, as ridiculous as it sounds, through the phone. The mystery is solved when Sango realizes that it's a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeno_Kyūsaku Yumeno Kyūsaku]]'s novel ''Dogra Magra'', which might be found in Sango's favourite bookstore.]]

'''NAO''': Its official toponym is "Toritsuka no Mori"[[note]]"Bird Mound Forest". In-game, it's popularly known among the neighbors as "Ura no Mori", i. e. "Back Forest" and/or "Hidden Behind Forest"[[/note]]. A member of the Rugby Club who went to the forest had an accident, and soon after, the rumor started to spread out: whoever goes there during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Did you know it, Shīna-san?\\

The objective of the game is to break the curse that befalls on the main characters, which states that one of them will die after a hundred days, before the day finally arrives. This will be only possible by solving a good number of mysteries in the city, therefore uncovering the truth of the curse.

** '''The rumor of the crow's curse''' ([[ButThouMust Unskippable mission]]) ''':''' Whoever goes to the Bird Mound Forest during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Nao sees a Human-faced Crow and falls to its curse, which ensures that one of the three kids will die after 100 days... But only Nao sees it.

** '''The rumor of the corpse:''' A smelly abandoned apartment bears a moldy corpse, who lives in a fridge. [[spoiler: FakeAfterAll: It's just a messy debt evader who hides himself in the attic. The evader encourages the kids to [[GossipEvolution keep the rumors going]].]]
** '''The rumor of the ghosts under the highway:''' A ghost haunts an eerie unkempt tunnel, which was the place a traffic accident not too far ago. [[spoiler: The team only finds a [[DirtyOldMan creepy salaryman]] and a seemingly [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk woman]] there, but helping the latter cross the tunnel will [[SanityMeter ease Kurumi's mind]].]] [[spoiler: Kasuka advises Kurumi to help the woman and warns her not to go again near the tunnel, which is a haunted place.]]
** '''The rumor of the Maze Street:''' A strange street that [[UnnaturallyLoopingLocation disorientates whoever travels there]] until they die. [[spoiler: Kurumi gets lost, but, of all things, [[AnimateInanimateObject a mailbox]] helps her to find Yamabato Dōji, a kid playing hide-and-seek who is implied to be [[FairyTrickster responsible for getting people lost]]. The three together later try to find him, but see otherwise a fairly normal street]]
* MedicateTheMedium: Kurumi's parents are concerned with her behavior, so they take her to the psychiatrist. Ironically, Takehiko (the head psychatrist) doesn't believe her to be mentally ill and at most thinks that it's a minor behavioral issue -- it's Akigawa (the junior psychiatrist) who decides that a medication-lead treatment is more appropriate to treat her possible psychotic condition.

* '''Evening''' (''Cutscene'')''':''' The chosen character gets a personal household scene, dealing with (home), family conversations, and/or other chores.

* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "The rumor of the crow's curse", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow perch on it, look at you (as Nao), and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: The Human-faced Crow turns out to be the corrupted version of a former benevolent crow deity... As well as just a myth who probably can't harm anyone that doesn't believe in it.]]

* CreepyChild: Kasuka, a girl that only Kurumi seems to see. [[spoiler: She actually [[MysteriousProtector tries to help the gang to solve their mysteries]], and is very beneficial to the Spiritual Disturbance meter, decreasing 10 points per encounter...]] [[spoiler: Although she is very interested in Kurumi [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence joining with her and the other Deities]].]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The subject matter of the game is about proving if strange and paranormal rumors are true or not. Depending on the mystery and character, it may fall into FakeMystery or RealAfterAll.

* NatureSpirit: [[spoiler: While most of the Seven Deities of Hirumi probably fall under this category, some of them are clearly this, such as Tengu (a [[GeniusLoci waterfall spirit]]) and Naruko-sama (a former [[UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}} sacred Shinboku tree]], now merely a stump). Some of them take more animalistic forms like the cat [[TalkingAnimal Nekomata Daigongen]] and the [[SymbioticPossession possesing fox spirit]] Kitsunetsuki, CreepyChild-like entities like the girl Kasuka, and a mix of both like the {{Shapeshifting}} turtle dove-boy Yamabato Dōji and the Jinmen Karasu ([[BeastWithAHumanFace Human-faced Crow]]).]]

* [[spoiler: PowersThatBe: The Seven Deities of Hirumi, a bunch of BlueAndOrangeMorality spirits that haunt Hirumi City. While during most of the game only Kurumi can see them, the GoldenEnding makes Nao and Sango have visons of them.]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The game starts after the main characters suffer a supposed curse, and serves as the justification of the 100-day-long game. The
GoldenEnding [[spoiler: isn't so much about breaking the curse, but about Nao refusing to believe in it anymore and accept that Kurumi's illness is a very unfortunate coincidence.]]

'''NAO''': The forest's official name is "Toritsuka no Mori"[[note]]"Bird Mound Forest". In-game, it's popularly known among the neighbors as "Ura no Mori", i. e. "Back Forest" and/or "Hidden Behind Forest"[[/note]]. A member of the rugby club who went to the forest had an accident, and soon after, the rumor started to spread out: whoever goes there during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Did you know it, Shīna-san?\\

The game is set in the fictional Japanese town of Hirumi City. The game follows three kids, a boy named Naoki "'''[[TheIdealist Nao]]'''" Urase, two girls named '''[[TheIngenue Kurumi]]''' Shīna and Mayu "'''[[InsufferableGenius Sango]]'''" Heinai, and Nao's dog Melos. They've heard quite a number of pretty spooky [[UrbanLegend urban legends]] about places all over town, and have decided to look in to their legitimacy.

* If your character is spiritually disturbed, s/he will have a '''NightmareSequence minigame''' during nighttime. Be careful, though, since suffering one too many will lead to a NonstandardGameOver.

The objective of the game is to break the curse that befalls on the main characters, which states that one of them will die after a thousand days, before the day finally arrives.
This will be only possible by solving a good number of mysteries in the city, therefore uncovering the truth of the curse.

* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "The rumor of the crow's curse", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow perch on it, look at you (as Nao), and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief.

* GoldenEnding: To get the best ending, you have to unlock the final mystery and play it before the 100th day. In it, [[spoiler: Nao terminates with the Human-Faced Crow and its curse (and, by proxy, with the Seven Deities of Hirumi) by ceasing to believe in them, but sadly, Kurumi dies nonetheless. However, Kurumi dies, but during the night she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence appears along the Seven Deities of Hirumi]] to Nao and Sango... OrWasItADream]]

* [[spoiler: PowersThatBe: The Seven Deities of Hirumi, a bunch of BlueAndOrangeMorality spirits that haunt Hirumi City. While during most of the game only Kurumi can see them, the GoldenEnding makes Nao and Kurumi have visons of them.]]

* SliceOfLife: Although the game is technically about three kids proving spooky rumors, its (mostly) mundane daily structure of morning school conversations / afternoon walks around the town / evening family antics puts it firmly in this territory. It's also got heavy doses of MagicRealism, but doesn't completely fall into it due to [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the ambiguousness of most of the situations]].

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The game starts after the main characters suffer a supposed curse, and serves as the justification of the 100-day-long game. [[spoiler: The GoldenEnding isn't so much about breaking the curse, but about Nao refusing to believe in it anymore and accept that Kurumi's illness is a very unfortunate coincidence.]]

'''NAO''': The forest's official name is "Toritsuka no Mori"[[note]]"Bird Mound Forest". In-game, it's popularly known among the neighbors as "Ura no Mori", i. e. "Back Forest" and/or "Hidden Behind Forest"[[/note]]. A member of the rugby club who went to the forest had an accident, and soon after, the rumor started to spread out... Whoever goes there during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Did you know it, Shīna-san?\\

'''SANGO''': "''FOAF''"; "friend of a friend". [[GossipEvolution It's the most common feature of folk stories]]. Didn't you notice it?

The game is set in the fictional Japanese town of Hirumi City. The game follows three kids, a boy named Naoki "Nao" Urase, two girls named Kurumi Shīna and Mayu "Sango" Heinai, and Nao's dog Melos. They've heard quite a number of pretty spooky [[UrbanLegend urban legends]] about places all over town, and have decided to look in to their legitimacy.

The game was released on October 7th, 1999, [[NoExportForYou but only in Japan]].

There's a walkthrough translated into English, in case [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvj3ZoFnWFZ12Nu9JCGoc_ws1OVw9clsG you're curious to see what it's like]].

* BeastWithAHumanFace: [[VideoGameTutorial The very first case]], "The rumor of the crow's curse", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a Human-faced Crow perch on it, look at you, and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: Real or not, somebody will die after 100 days.]]

* CreepyChild: Kasuka, a girl that only Kurumi seems to see. [[spoiler: She actually [[MysteriousProtector tries to help the gang to solve their mysteries]], and is very beneficial to the Spirit Harm Meter, decreasing 10 points per encounter...]] [[spoiler: Although she is very interested in Kurumi [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence joining with her and the other six deities]].]]

* GoldenEnding: To get the best ending, you have to unlock the final mystery and play it before the 100th day. In it, [[spoiler: Kurumi dies, but during the night she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence appears along the Seven Deities of Hirumi]] to Nao and Sango... OrWasItADream]]

* LoveTriangle: Nao has a very obvious crush on Kurumi, who tries to get her on a date, but Kurumi is so oblivious that mistakes it for a mere night walk (which kickstarts the events of the game). Meanwhile, Sango has a crush on her pen pal Tomoki, but the fact that she's never seen him makes her get feelings for Nao very slowly. [[spoiler: Kurumi dies and the two get distant after her death. However, Sango breaks her contact with Tomoki, and the game's ending hints at the two former friends getting together again.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: If the "Spirit Harm" meter reaches 100 points, a character will have a lethal NightmareSequence: Kurumi will be captured by the night spirits and die, Nao will wake up alone in an hospital, and Sango will be run over by a car after shopping in a grocery during the night.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: Every character in the game is rotoscopied, as well as the backgrounds (which are mostly based on Hino, Tokyo, although they are also based on other Tokyo and Chiba cities).
* SanityMeter: The game has an invisible "Spirit Harm" meter, which grows a point higher on each day after the Human-faced Crow encounter. It's possible to lower or raise it during some investigations - for example, a visit to the temple will lower one point per day. After 20 points are obtained (10 in the case of Kurumi), yout last played character will suffer a NightmareSequence minigame after every 10 points - depending on the chosen option, the meter will stay the same or rise a point. In case that you reach 100 points, it's GameOver.

* [[spoiler: {{Tulpa}}: The Human-faced Crow's "true identity" is implied to be a CreepyChild which escaped from from a mental institution and was found in a well near the Human-Faced Crow's zone, and at some point her evil presence was mixed-up with the folk belief of a benevolent crow deity.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hirumi City is not stated to be in a specific prefecture, although it's loosely based in Tokyo and Chiba cities.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The game starts after the main characters suffer a supposed curse, and serves as the justification of the 100-day-long game.

'''NAO''': The forest's official name is "Toritsuka no Mori"[[note]]"Bird Mound Forest". In-game, it's popularly known among the neighbors as "Ura no Mori", i. e. "Back Forest" and/or "Hidden Behind Forest"[[/note]]. A rugby club member who went to the forest had an accident, and soon after, the rumor started to spread out... Whoever goes there during a full blood moon night shall be cursed. Did you know it, Shīna-san?\\

'''SANGO''': It is a so-called "forbidden forest", [[AgentScully although I don't care about such fearmongering]]. • • • So, Nao... If the curse were true, how would you deal with it? According to the rumor, you should die after 100 days, isn't that right?\\

There's a walkthrough in case [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvj3ZoFnWFZ12Nu9JCGoc_ws1OVw9clsG you're curious to see what it's like]]. It's been translated into English.

* BeastWithAHumanFace: Chapter 0, "The Mound Of Bird", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see a crow with a human face perch on it, look at you, and tell you that someone will die in 100 days. However, only Nao sees it, and Sango hypothesizes that it's an hallucination caused by Nao's belief. [[spoiler: Real or not, somebody will die after 100 days.]]

* GoldenEnding: To get the best ending, you have to unlock the final mystery and play it before the 100th day. In it, [[spoiler: Kurumi "dies" (i. e. [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence joins the Seven Deities of Hirumi]]) and departs from her friends, showing them the spirits that they couldn't see.]]

* LoveTriangle: Nao has a very obvious crush on Kurumi, who tries to get her on a date, but Kurumi is so oblivious that mistakes it for a mere night walk (which kickstarts the events of the game). Meanwhile, Sango has a crush on her pen pal Tomoki, but the fact that she's never seen him makes her get feelings for Nao very slowly. [[spoiler: The game keeps a possible relation between Nao and Sango ambiguously open-ended, since in the GoldenEnding Kurumi [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence gets away from the mortal world]].]]

* NonStandardGameOver: If the "Spirit Harm" meter reaches 100 points, a character will have a lethal NightmareSequence: Kurumi will be captured by the night spirits and die, Nao will wake up alone in an hospital, and Nao will be run over by a car after shopping in a grocery during the night.
* [[spoiler: PowersThatBe: The Seven Deities of Hirumi, a bunch of BlueAndOrangeMorality spirits that haunt Hirumi City. While during most of the game only Kurumi can see them, the GoldenEnding makes Nao and Kurumi (as well as some other civilians) have visons of them.]]

* SliceOfLife: Although the game is technically about three kids proving spooky rumors, its (mostly) mundane daily structure of morning school conversations / afternoon walks around the town / evening family antics puts it firmly in this territory. [[spoiler: By the GoldenEnding of the game, it's completely turned into a MagicRealism tale.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hirumi City is not stated to be in a specific prefecture.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The game starts after one of the main characters suffers a supposed curse, and serves as the justification of the 100-day-long game.

'''NAO''': Its formal name is "The Forest of the Bird's Mound". A rugby club member who went to the forest had an accident. Afterwards, the rumor started to spread out... When somebody goes there at a red full moon night, it shall be cursed. Shiina-san, did you know it?\\
'''KURUMI''': [[IdiotSavant Nope]].\\
'''SANGO''': It's a so-called forbidden forest, but [[AgentScully I'm not interested in such fearmongering]]. (...) In case of the curse really existed, how would you deal with it? According to it, you should die after 100 days, doesn't it?\\
'''NAO''': I know you don't believe it, but I heard it from a friend at the crammer. A friend of his older friend saw it and died.\\
'''SANGO''': ...Do you realize what you've just said?\\
'''NAO''': No...\\
'''SANGO''': ''FOAF'': "Friend of a friend". [[GossipEvolution It's the most common feature of folk stories]]. Didn't you notice it?

The game is set in the fictional Japanese town of Hirumi City. The game follows three kids, a boy named Nao, two girls named Kurumi and Sango, and Nao's dog Melos. They've heard quite a number of pretty spooky [[UrbanLegend urban legends]] about places all over town, and have decided to look in to their legitimacy.

[[caption-width-right:350:Three kids and the truth]]

The game is set in the fictional Japanese town of Hirumi City. The game follows three kids, a boy named Nao, two girls named Kurumi and Sango, and Nao's dog Meros. They've heard quite a number of pretty spooky [[UrbanLegend urban legends]] about places all over town, and have decided to look in to their legitimacy.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Kurumi acts way too childish for a girl of her age, and claims to have paranormal experiences. Her parents try so solve it with psychologist sessions.
* BeastWithAHumanFace: Chapter 0, "The Mound Of Bird", involves looking into an UrbanLegend regarding a shrine behind the school. If you wait long enough at the stone there, you will see [[spoiler:a crow with a human face perch on it, look at you, and tell you that someone will die in 100 days]].
* CanineCompanion: Meros.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: The group is made up of two girls (Kurumi and Sango) and two boys (Nao and Meros).

* SliceOfLife: Although the game is technically about three kids proving spooky rumors, its (mostly) mundane daily structure of morning school conversations / afternoon walks around the town / evening family antics puts it firmly in this territory.

* TeamPet: Meros serves as this to the three kids.

* Rotoscoping: Every character in the game is rotoscopied, as well as the backgrounds (which are mostly based on Hino, Tokyo, although they are also based on other Tokyo and Chiba cities).

* UrbanLegend: The game is all about looking into urban legends all around town.

* UrbanLegend: The game is all about looking into urban legends all around town.
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* SideView: The majority of the game is viewed in this manner, barring the wraparound first-person views.